Ten books that shaped the British empire : : creating an imperial commons / / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-; Hofmeyr, Isabel.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

<div>Looking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.</div>

Table of Contents

Remaking the empire from Newgate : Wakefield's A letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne -- Jane Eyre at home and abroad / Charlotte Macdonald -- Macaulay's History of England : a book that shaped nation and empire / Catherine Hall -- "The Day Will Come" : Charles H. Pearson's National life and character : a forecast / Marilyn Lake -- Victims of "British justice"? A century of wrong as anti-imperial tract, core narrative of the Afrikaner "nation," and victim-based solidarity-building discourse / André du Toit -- The text in the world, the world through the text : Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for boys / Elleke Boehmer -- Hind Swaraj : translating sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud -- Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh : a history of empire and nation in a minor key / Mrinalini Sinha -- C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins and the making of the modern Atlantic world / Aaron Kamugisha -- Ethnography and cultural innovation in Mau Mau detention camps : Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya aagĩkũyũ / Derek R. Peterson.